Posts From August 2008

We held a surprise going pro party for Angel in Denver, CO and our rep out there had the pics to prove it.
Angel had no idea but all his friends from Colorado were there to surprise him.
...Meanwhile back at the homestead. Which is across the street from the bar where the party was hosted Angel smokes one last cigarette as a amateur skateboarder. Now he will be smoking as a professional.
Now he is brought to the location where he will be meeting the rest of his friends for the usual Thursday night gathering...
Where his pro model boards were hanging!
Surprise Angel you are now Pro!
Chicks love pros!
Do take notice of the shirt changes going on...
Goodnight Denver...its a wrap.

Abdias Rivera! This was shot at last years Pheonix Am and he was doing these in his runs every try.
Heres the part that you really don't want to mess up. Picture the crowd in their underwear and imagine the fire hydrant being a small pebble. Pop your board.
Stay focused and keep the board under you. But remember to flick the shit out of it. And pretend you're doing a frontside flip but like only a baby frontside flip because you only need to rotate it 90 degrees since its a shifty.
Think light as a feather and rotate those hips.
Once you get this high try not to just fall straight down onto the fire hydrant on your baby maker.
Prepare to land and not fall. Also slowly start rotating it back to straight.
Don't land 90 or else its just gonna be like a stupid flip or something. I don't even know what to call that.
Land straight as a arrow and roll away screaming Yes Yes Yes. Then throw your hands up and start the YMCA celebration dance and hope the crowd follows...

I found this sequence of Gareth that hadn't been used for anything so I figured what better way than to post a instructional trick tip. These are my words not his. I'm just using him as my stunt dummy.
Step 1: Climb onto the highest possible structure you can. Hopefully it's high enough where you can't even see the bottom where you're supposed to land.
Step 2: Get in tail drop posistion or dump truck or nosepick or handstand or criss cross applesauce or whatever you feel comfortable jumping from onto a skateboard.
Step 3: This is actually part of step 2 but it's so important that I'm highlighting it and including it in it's own step. Point to your friend at the bottom and say "this is for chicks" or "get money" or "pirate life" or "gangster life" or whatever you feel comfortable getting into at that moment in time.
Step 4: Go for it.
Step 5: Don't think about falling. Think about landing. Think happy thoughts...
Step 6: Be very thankful that you didn't completely mess this up! Suck up the impact and party down onto safe grounds to celebrate.
Step 7: Make sure all your friends filmed it. Go straight home and edit it to a sweet song and send it in for sponsorship opportunities.

Remember when Alex was more of a actor than a skater? Well I heard he's hit it big time and landed something epic in the new Slap magazine...
Oh David how handsome you have become. Have fun on your trip to the Northwest. Give Angel my best.
Sometimes when I'm at work I wish I was no other place than the bottom of the Woodward foam pit.

Evolution Skateshop in Ohio just had a interesting visitor walk into the shop. Is this the start of a new Foundation giveaway. Dress up like Duffman for prizes?? Because I'm sending this kid a board...
If you think have you done something worthy of a prize then email me. I'm taking Foundation related costumes at the moment... Promo@TumYeto.net

David sent me this photo of Angel the other day. He said something along the lines of your really gonna like this photo or this photo is good for the site. Something like that. Sweet. Yeah David I love this photo it looks like it was taken with a disposable camera from 1975 then developed at the local gas station, then rubbed in dirt, then ran over by a car, then left out in the ran, then scanned in and sent to me. Thanks David.

Real Skateboards rider Johnny Romano has been moved back into the ICU and could really use some words of encouragement from you guys. Go to this link and leave him a message. Room 910.
Everyone at TumYeto is thinking about you Johnny. We got your back! Get better soon!

The somewhat still new formed team Circa Combat featuring Foundation riders Abdias Rivera and Don "Nuge" Nguyen will be shredding in the East Coast. Look for a location near you!
Just watch the last clip of that video. Wow.

Corey and Sierra have been at the X-games the past couple of days. Also Toy Machine's Johnny Layton.
Duffel 50-50's a graffiti covered rail.
Sierra kickflip backlip.
Duffel nosegrinds.
Both the guys suffered injuries and had to be checked out by the trainers.